Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-10-14
ISLAND POND, VERMONT. OCTOBER A. 1887.

1anIonshIp your Loneliness, to soothe your
sorrows, to sit with you by the new-made
grave, 20 bind up Your wounds in the ugly
battle with the world and bri1g yop home at
last, kndling up the mist5 that fall on your
dying vision with the sunlight Of glorious
morn. For your sakes! No, | will change
that. Paul will not care, and Christ will not
care if change it, for ! must get into the
blesseduess OF the text myself, and so ! say:
- For our slkes /" For we ell have our temp
tatious, and befeavtmeuts, and conflicts.
For our sakes We, who deserve for bur sifts
to be eexpatriated into world as much poorer
than this earth MS this earth is poorer than
heaven. For our saleS ....-..
But what a fruitful coming down To tahe
US glorionsly up. When Artaxerxes was
hunting, Tirebazus who was attending him,
showed the King rent in his garment. The
King said: How shall mend itf' by CIV
ing it to ma, said Tirehazus. Then the King
gave him the robe. but commanded him never
to wear it, as it w61ld be inappropriate. See
the startling and comforting fact, Willie our
Prince throws off the habit he not only al
lows us to wear it, but commands us to wear
it, and it will become us well, and for the pow
critics Of our spiritual state we may put on
the splendors of heavenly regalement For
our sakes! Oh, the personality OF this re-
ligionl Not an abstraction, not an
arch under which we walk to behold elabo-
rate masonry, not an ice caste like that
which Empress Elizabeth, Of Russia, over
100 wears ago ordered constructed, winter
with its trowel of crystal cementing the huge
blocks that had been quarried from the
frozen rivers of the north, but u fathers
house with wide hearth cracking hearty
welcome A region Of warmth and inspira-
tion, and light, and cheer, Something we
can take into our hearts, and homes, and busi-
ness, recrcations, and joys and sorrows
Not an unmanageahle gift like the galley
presented to PtO!emy, which required 1900
men to row; and its draught of water was so
great that it could not come near the shore
but something you can run up any stream OF
annoyance, however shallow. Enrichment
low, enrichment forever.
Right about face for you are going in the
wrong direction. While you are in favor
able mood for it, enter into life. Here and
just now decide everything that makes for
peace and heaven. Agassiz says that he has
stood at one place in the Alps where he could
throw chip into the water in one direction,
and it would roll on into the German ocean,
or he could throw q chip into the water in
another direction, and it would reach the
Black sea by the Danube. or lie could throw
chip in another direction, and it would
enter the Mediterranean by the Rhone. How
far apart the Mediterranean, and the Black
sea, end the German ocean. Standing to-day
on the Alps of Gospel privilege, you can pro-
Ject your soul into right currents, and 1t
will roll on into the ocean of life, or project
it in the wrong direction, and it will roll into
the sea of death. But how far apart the two
distances! May God help us to appreciate
more and more the mOmentous meaning of
of our text! The seven wise men of Greece
were chiefly known each for one apothegm;
Solon for the saying: "Know thyself:" Per,
lander for the saying: Nothing is impossible
to industry" Chilo for the saying; "Con.
slider the end;'' Thales for the saying: "Sure-
tyship is the precursor OF ruin" And Paul,
distinguished for a thousand utterances,
might well l3; Stford @ to be. be memorable s for the
Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet
for your sakes became poor, that ye through
His poverty might be rich"